Reviews

It's a road trip coming of age film with one additional element - the horror.

Sallam is Jordanian (the film was shot in Jordan), and in her first narrative feature, smartly directs on what must have been a shoestring budget, from the point of view of Farha, which we learn at the end is based on a true story (Sallam learned about it from her Palestinian father).

Antonioni's cinema is so ethereal and dreamy, which I love, but this film slightly went over my head.

I haven't been moved by a film as much as this in years.

Prayers for the stolen offers a reminder as to why we're so lucky to live in any near normal form of society but is also another in the long list of terrific films to come from the region in recent years.

Thought to be one of the first films to depict the AIDS epidemic, this film released in 1985 is a moving and realistic portrait of what it was like to be around the gay community living with the disease in New York in the mid 1980s.

A very fine film spanning several timelines that follows the life of a gay man 'Hans' in post war Germany.

There are many allegories in the film - people talk about seeing red fish in the river (blood of the dead?), the Hives that the missing husband built are somewhat recreated when our main character decides to start a bustling business selling jars of red pepper in her home.

It's a really great concept (another of those film within a film films, possibly even a hyperlink film) and has so much subtext flowing through it, mostly to do with life choices, morals, lost love etc - which makes Bergman himself the perfect accompaniment for some of the multi layered themes, give...

It is Alex Camilleris debut film, which is remarkable given the direction.